Sound Off! for Monday, May 27, 2013

I was watching the news and it seems that part of a bridge collapsed in Washington state. Here our government, the president, Congress are spending all their time and our money working on something that doesn’t need to be fixed – gun control namely – and we have our infrastructure going bad. We need to kick them out and start all over again. Somebody that will work for us.

Mt. Pleasant

I live on Fancher just north of High Street and a couple of good-natured young people coming home from downtown late at night earlier this week moved a Girl Scout sign into my yard– I presume from somebody else’s yard. If the people who had it in would like it back they can come get it. If not, I will be glad to display it in support of a great organization.

Mt. Pleasant

Several years after high school, I learned that one of my best friends from high school was gay. It wasn’t something that she told me face to face. She didn’t have some big coming out of the closet moment. She didn’t run to the nearest state that passed the gay marriage law to make it official, nor did she have to walk in a parade. Tell me again Mr. Hagerman, why do the conservatives of Gratiot County need to start supporting gay equality? Can’t we all just be who we are without making a production out of it?

Ithaca

(Wouldn’t the world be a better place if we all supported equality for everyone? – Ed.)

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Redneck Fireworks – what a fun ad in Sunday’s paper. I stopped and talked to them today. They opened at 2 o’clock on Friday. What a great name and what a great people.

Mt. Pleasant

In response to St. Louis regarding 13 kids with a 4.0 GPA. Having a 4.0 GPA does not mean a student never got a question wrong. It means that you received an A in all of your classes. It is possible to miss points and still get an A.

Ithaca

If local law enforcement doesn’t have time to investigate nonviolent crimes or pursue nonviolent criminals who have a warrant for their arrest, how do they have time for all of the seatbelt and speed traps?

Mt. Pleasant

We were walking at Island Park today. There seems to be some kind of construction going on behind Mountain Town Station near the train tracks. It is in the area that is always severely flooded in the springtime. There are construction men there hammering away. Maybe you can check it out for us?

Mt. Pleasant

I frequent the Soaring Eagle Casino. I just want to applaud the person calling for a strip club there. I mean, how much more of a perfect of an idea can a person come up with?

St. Louis

I’m over here by Beaverton and I just came up on an Amish buggy with no slow moving vehicle signs or reflectors or anything. I believe it should be a law that if they have a buggy on the road, they should have some sign or reflectors on it. That should be by law.

Mt. Pleasant

I just want to sound off about the lady in the other day’s paper who said 90 percent of the drug trafficking and violent crimes come from the casino. How racist are you? That is not true at all.

Mt. Pleasant

I’m calling from Mt. Sleazy. Apparently, somebody didn’t like our post about the strip club. This is called Sound Off people. It is opinions, people. Opinions.

Mt. Pleasant

I was just wondering how do you get a job as the person who listens to the Sound Offs and decides which ones go in the paper? That would be a sweet job and I would be a perfect person for it.

Mt. Pleasant

I’m calling about people who have problems with mosquitoes. If you use a Bounce fabric softener sheet and wipe your clothes down before you go outside, that will keep the mosquitoes off of you. I hope that helps the people who are scratching.

Elwell

In regards to science and God, science is the toolkit God gave us to use.

Winn

Why are people in such an uproar about Apple’s tax situation. Apple is run by liberal Democrats and they follow a tax code written by liberal Democrats. What’s the problem?

Mt. Pleasant

To the Isabella County Road Commission, you guys do a terrible job maintaining our gravel roads. You should feel guilty about taking the taxpayers money.

Coldwater Lake

I would like to thank all the men and women who served or are serving this Memorial Day weekend.

Oil City

I’m wondering why in the Morning Sun under the television channels, you never have the Fox News channel? Isn’t that amazing?

Mt. Pleasant

(The channel listing comes from a third-party vendor. We can check with the vendor to see if they would be willing to add Fox News. – Ed.)

To the person who asked if they were the only person who thought Scott Showers was an idiot … No, I think he is a dummy and his voting is kinda dummy too. I think it was a mistake to reduce the board to five from seven because now they kind of dominate. They should not be on the board. They should be recalled.

Ithaca

I looked at Salt River Cemetery in Shepherd and there were piles of leaves around rows of grave markers. What a way to honor our loved ones!

Alma

It is fairly sad what the St. Louis community is turning into when you can’t even have your newspaper delivered to your house without somebody stealing it every day. It is really sad when we have come to that when our community was such a nice little town where you could trust everybody.

St. Louis

I had to call while I was still angry. Blanchard Road is the worst road in the whole county. It is a disgrace. I had to drive on it today and I haven’t found any dirt road in the community that is worse than Blanchard Road.